Education and Society explores major current themes concerning the relationship between education and society from an international and comparative perspective. The authors, attempting to answer the what-is-worth-knowing question, have focused on such globally relevant issues as educational inequality, multiculturalism, technological change, gender and literacy, compensatory education, family values, environment education, democratic school management, schooling in postmodern society and strategies for school change. Education and Society defines the issues that are at the forefront of the debate over the relationship between the school and the social, economic and political institutions which surround it.